PNY GTX 1070 XLR8 OC 8GB Review

The Gears Of War 4 game’s plot is set 25 years after Gears of War 3 and focuses on JD Fenix, the son of Marcus Fenix. Gears of War is a third-person shooter game, with its core concepts being derived from Resident Evil 4‘s “over the shoulder” perspective, Kill Switch‘s cover system, and Bionic Commando‘s swinging action akin to moving between points of cover. (Wikipedia).

Gears of War 4 is launched via the Windows 10 Store, requires the Windows 10 Anniversary Update to run, and only supports the DirectX 12 API.

We test using the Ultra quality preset. Dynamic Resolution scaling was turned off and Async Compute was enabled where the GPU supported it.

Gears of War 4 shows the exact same trend at all resolutions – the overclocked GTX 980 Ti sits directly above PNY's card while the GTX 1070 FE is below it.

Perfectly playable frame rates were spat out at 1440P using the PNY GTX 1070 XLR8 OC, which is good to see. 4K is borderline playable but you'd be better served by reducing image quality to achieve a smoother frame rate more towards 60 FPS.

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